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d) Aves. 



The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. XL Jan. 1894. No. 1. 



New York, L. S. Foster, 1894. 8». (p. 1—90, IX— XXV, 1 pi.) 

 Sixth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North 



American Birds, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 46 — 51. 

 Chapman, Frk, M., Remarks on the Origin of Bird Migration, in : The Auk, 

 VoL 11. No. 1. p. 12—17. 



Accepts the theory of Allen and adds as effective in governing the migratory 

 habit the desire for seclusion in the breeding time and to return to the breeding 

 grounds. 

 Howell, Arth. H., Notes on some [5] Long Island Birds, in: The Auk , Vol. 11. 



No. 1. p. 82-84. 

 Loomis, Leverett M., A further Review of the Avian Fauna of Chester County, 

 South Carolina, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 26—39. 



Variability in the Occurrence of Transient Migrants. IL Variability in the Oc- 

 currence of Breeding and Winter Residents independent of Failure of Food or 

 Severity or Mildness of Season. 

 M ackay, Geo. H., Stray Notes from Massachusetts, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. 

 p. 84—85. 

 On the occurrence of 9 species. 

 Nelson, E. W., and T. S. Palmer, Descriptions of five new Birds from Mexico, 

 in: The Auk, VoL 11. No. 1. p. 39—45. 



Megascops pinosus n. sp., M. JRidgwayi n. sp., Olaucidium Fisherin. sp., Ainio- 

 phila rufescens pallida n. subsp. , Sitta carolinensis mexicana n. subsp. 

 Wayne, Arth. T., Effect of the Great Cyclone of August 26 — 27 upon Certain Spe- 

 cies of Birds, in : The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 85. 

 A great many were killed. 

 Edwards, A. Milne, et Alfr. Grandidier, Observations sur les Aepyomis de 

 Madagascar, in: Compt. rend. Ac. Sc. Paris, T. 118. No. 3. p. 122 — 127. 

 Extr. in: Revue Scientif. (4.) T. 1. No. 3. p. 90. 



Aepyomis, à pattes larges et massives (9sp. ; nn. spp. : A. ingens, cursor, Mül- 

 leri); Mullerorttis n. g. (nn. spp.: Betsilei, agilis, rudis]; Brevipennes, les Muller- 

 ornis ressemblant des Casoars. 

 Wayne, Arth. T., S^ixague' sTi-pit {Anthus Spraguei) on the Coast of South Carolina, 

 in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 80. 

 The first eastern record. 

 Sur her, Thadd., Capture of the Golden Eagle [Aquila chrysaetus] at Covington, 

 Virginia, in : The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 77. 

 First record from the locality. 

 Butcher, Will., The Labrador Duck [Camptolaimus laòradorius] — another 

 specimen, with additional data respecting extant specimens, in: The Auk, 

 VoL 11. No. 1. p. 4—12. 



Corrects some mistakes of Prof. Newton ; as to the cause of its extinction, no 

 facts warrant a conclusion. 

 Thompson, Ern. E., Hybrid Pinicola enucleator X Corpodacus purpureus. With 

 1 col. pL in: The Auk, VoL 11. No. 1. p. 1—3. 

 Born in a state of nature. 

 Mackay, Geo. H., The 1893 Migration of Charadrius dominictis and Numenius 

 borealis in Massachusetts, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 75 — 76. 

 Local observations. 

 Bishop, Louis B., Remarks on the Nest oî Cistothorus palustris . in : The Auk, 



Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 80—81. 

 Young, Curtis Clay, JEmpidonax fiaviventris on Long Island, N. Y. in: The Auk, 

 Vol. 11. No. l.p. 78. 

 First record. 



